In “!Women Art Revolution” Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has combined a valuable collection of historic film clips plus current interviews with artists, curators, scholars and critics. These women, in the 1970s and after, forged a place for the long-neglected work of female artists in the galleries and museums of America.

Well-known leaders of the struggle such as Judy Chicago, Nancy Spero, Marcia Tucker, Faith Ringold, Miriam Schapiro and many others are seen, and there is at least some sense of what the struggle cost in terms of effort and rejection, broken marriages and new alliances. It was not easy when Judy Chicago’s “Dinner Party” was described (more…)

There is poignancy in this story, actually a sociological study, of a homeless teenager in and around Fullerton, one of the rotting, foreclosed suburbs of inland California. Josh “Skreech” Sandoval was spotted by director Tristan Patterson, (more…)

If you like films to be logical and predictable, director Todd Rohal’s “The Catechism Cataclysm” won’t be your favorite. This story of two former high school friends, one an unhappy, childish priest and the other a one time (more…)

What, if anything, distinguishes director Azrael Jacobs’ “Terri” from many other films about troubled teenagers? Surely, we can feel sorry for all the characters. Teen “hero” Terri (Jacob Wysocki) is an ungainly, overweight 15-year-old who (more…)

As part of the Sarasota Film Festival, Geena Davis talks about her Institute and it’s finding in a study on Gender in Media and Ask Jane to the audience gathered at a Luncheon in the Sarasota Yacht Club.

Eighteenth Century writer. Nineteenth Century composer. Twentieth Century artist.

What these three gifted German creators have in common is their desire for wholeness, their grandiose, passionate need to encompass and symbolically depict the world. Director Sophie Fiennes’ new film about Kiefer, “Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow”, provides a memorable, big screen close up of recent works by this widely renowned Neo-Expressionist artist.

Born in the Black Forest of war-torn Germany in 1945, Kiefer has long depicted decay, destruction and depopulation in enormous, mournful, deeply receding landscapes of burned fields, forests, and abandoned (more…)